Applicaitons in survival analysis
- 1 January 1999
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Animal Science
- Vol. 77 (suppl_2) , 147-153
- https://doi.org/10.2527/1999.77suppl_2147x
Abstract
Survival or failure time traits such as herd life and days open are both important economically and pose a number of challenges to an analysis based on linear mixed models. The main features of a survival trait are that it is the time until some event occurs, and some of the observations are censored. Survival models and the associated estimation procedures provide a flexible means of modeling survival traits. In this paper I will discuss the application of survival analysis based on the Weibull distribution. The components that make up a survival model will be presented along with their interpretation. Issues related to the model construction and estimation will be presented.Keywords
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